Jeff Ware (ice hockey)
| Jeff Ware | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
May 19, 1977 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||
| Weight | 220 lb (100 kg; 15 st 10 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for |
NHL Toronto Maple Leafs Florida Panthers AHL St. John's Maple Leafs Beast of New Haven Louisville Panthers Syracuse Crunch | ||
| NHL Draft |
15th overall, 1995 Toronto Maple Leafs | ||
| Playing career | 1996–2002 | ||
Jeff Ware (born May 19, 1977) is a Canadian former National Hockey League (NHL) defenceman who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Florida Panthers. He was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round (15th overall) of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.
Biography[]
As a youth, Ware played in the 1991 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Marlboros minor ice hockey team.[1] Ware attended high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario and Henry Street High School in Whitby, Ontario.[citation needed]
Ware played major junior hockey for the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, where he won the league championship in 1997.[citation needed] During his junior career, he also won a gold medal with Team Canada at the World Juniors hockey tournament in Geneva, Switzerland.[citation needed]
The Toronto Maple Leafs drafted Ware in the first round, 15th overall, at the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.[citation needed] Ware played 21 career games in the NHL, tallying one assist and twelve penalty minutes.[citation needed]
He retired from hockey in 2002 following five knee surgeries, and went on to earn his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School in New York City.[citation needed]
Career statistics[]
Regular season and playoffs[]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1993–94 | Wexford Raiders | MetJHL | 45 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 75 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1994–95 | Oshawa Generals | OHL | 55 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 86 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 1995–96 | Oshawa Generals | OHL | 62 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 128 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| 1995–96 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 1996–97 | Oshawa Generals | OHL | 24 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 38 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 34 | ||
| 1996–97 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997–98 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 67 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 182 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 1997–98 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 55 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 130 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | Beast of New Haven | AHL | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | Florida Panthers | NHL | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1999–2000 | Louisville Panthers | AHL | 51 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 128 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 2000–01 | Syracuse Crunch | AHL | 71 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 174 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||
| 2001–02 | Syracuse Crunch | AHL | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| AHL totals | 291 | 1 | 22 | 23 | 702 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | ||||
| NHL totals | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
International[]
| Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Canada | WJC | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
References[]
- ^ "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
External links[]
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or Legends of Hockey, or The Internet Hockey Database
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